Community Influences in Young Children & Adolescents
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 2695
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Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on the impact of community conditions on the health and well-being of children and adolescents in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information about the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
While health inequities are often noted among adult populations, the root of adult inequities likely lie early in development, as variations in health status have been observed in young children and adolescents. Differential exposure to physical, social, and psychosocial stressors likely play an important role in producing and maintaining health and social inequities by socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and immigrant status globally. Despite the growth in empirical research on community characteristics and their influence on children’s and adolescent health and development, much remains to be learned, particularly on the mechanisms through which community characteristics may impact outcomes. Community is often broadly defined, representing not only the residential neighborhood community, but family, school, and other social communities (e.g., social media) that may impact young children and adolescents. Research in this area can offer a critical guide for policy efforts and planning for public health. This issue aims to highlight problems and solutions to community influences on young children’s and adolescent health, behavior, development, and well-being in both high- and low-resource settings.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to the impacts of community factors or the intersection of community factors on health, behavior, development, and well-being of young children and adolescents. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Dr. Katherine P. TheallDr. Julia Fleckman
Dr. M. Pia Chaparro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Community
- Family
- Neighborhood
- Built environment
- Social environment
- Educational or school environment
- Norms
- Social media
- Life course and development
- Equity
- Disparities
- Community-based research and practice
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